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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-d6cc67d0d6
2015-10-26 17:07:58.824664
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Name : opensmtpd
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 5.7.3p1
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.opensmtpd.org/
Summary : Free implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321
Description :
OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined
by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary
machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.
Started out of dissatisfaction with other implementations, OpenSMTPD nowadays
is a fairly complete SMTP implementation. OpenSMTPD is primarily developed
by Gilles Chehade, Eric Faurot and Charles Longeau; with contributions from
various OpenBSD hackers. OpenSMTPD is part of the OpenBSD Project.
The software is freely usable and re-usable by everyone under an ISC license.
This package uses standard "alternatives" mechanism, you may call
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.opensmtpd"
if you want to switch to OpenSMTPD MTA immediately after install, and
"/usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" to revert
back to Sendmail as a default mail daemon.
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Update Information:
Issues fixed in this release (since 5.7.2): - fix an mda buffer truncation bug
which allows a user to create forward files that pass session checks but fail
delivery later down the chain, within the user mda; - fix remote buffer
overflow in unprivileged pony process; - reworked offline enqueue to better
protect against hardlink attacks. ---- Several vulnerabilities have been fixed
in OpenSMTPD 5.7.2: - an oversight in the portable version of fgetln() that
allows attackers to read and write out-of-bounds memory; - multiple denial-of-
service vulnerabilities that allow local users to kill or hang OpenSMTPD; - a
stack-based buffer overflow that allows local users to crash OpenSMTPD, or
execute arbitrary code as the non-chrooted _smtpd user; - a hardlink attack (or
race-conditioned symlink attack) that allows local users to unset the chflags()
of arbitrary files; - a hardlink attack that allows local users to read the
first line of arbitrary files (for example, root's hash from
/etc/master.passwd); - a denial-of-service vulnerability that allows remote
attackers to fill OpenSMTPD's queue or mailbox hard-disk partition; - an out-
of-bounds memory read that allows remote attackers to crash OpenSMTPD, or leak
information and defeat the ASLR protection; - a use-after-free vulnerability
that allows remote attackers to crash OpenSMTPD, or execute arbitrary code as
the non-chrooted _smtpd user; Further details can be found in Qualys' audit
report:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/17 MITRE has assigned one CVE for
the use-after-free vulnerability; additional CVEs may be assigned:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/23 External References:
https://www.opensmtpd.org/announces/release-5.7.2.txt http://seclists.org/oss-
sec/2015/q4/17
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1268837 - opensmtpd-5.7.3 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268837
[ 2 ] Bug #1268509 - opensmtpd: 5.7.2 release available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268509
[ 3 ] Bug #1268795 - CVE-2015-7687 OpenSMTPD: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 5.7.2
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268795
[ 4 ] Bug #1268858 - opensmtpd: Remotely triggerable buffer overflow vulnerability in
filter_tx_io [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268858
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update opensmtpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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